The study of determining the factors affecting inflation or consumer price index has been conducted by many macroeconomic economists nationally as well as internationally. In this paper, we assess the external determinants of inflation dynamics in Iran. For this purpose, we use an OLS single equation model and a vector error correction model (VECM). Results of the analysis reveal that money sup...

We test for fractional dynamics in CPI-based inflation rates for twenty-seven countries and WPI-based inflation rates for twenty-two countries. The fractional differencing parameter is estimated using semiparametric and approximate maximum likelihood methods. Significant evidence of fractional dynamics with long-memory features is found in both CPIand WPI-based inflation rates for industrial as...

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, and recent measurements from the BICEP2 collaboration indicating a tensor-to-scalar ratio of r = 0.20 −0.05[1], particle physics is now in an interesting position. The most precise measurements of the Higgs boson and top quark masses appear to show that the Electroweak vacuum is unstable under the fluctuations produced by inflation at the energy scale the ...

We investigate the dynamics of the recently proposed model of assisted inflation. In this model an arbitrary number of scalar fields with exponential potentials evolve towards an inflationary scaling solution, even if each of the individual potentials is too steep to support inflation on its own. By choosing an appropriate rotation in field space we can write down explicitly the potential for t...